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Genius Party Beyond

2008 · 81 min

A restless gallery of animated dreams, by turns gorgeous, baffling and unsettling, that rewards patience with pure visual invention.

Directed by: Mahiro Maeda, Tatsuyuki Tanaka
Genres: Animation
Starring: Arata Furuta, Yukiji, Shoko Takada

Overview: Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group film, full of freedom and ingenuity, that goes from Mahiro Maeda's classic anime, to Kazuto Nakazawa's intricate urban sketches, Shinya Ohira's bedlam of color and Tatsuyuki Tanaka's animated cyberpunk. And as if that wasn't enough, Koji Morimoto, the studio big boss, is charge of putting the icing on the cake with fantafabulous piece of abstract poetry that would make a VJ die of ecstasy. The party of the year.

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Directed by: Mahiro Maeda, Tatsuyuki Tanaka
Genres: Animation
Starring: Arata Furuta, Yukiji, Shoko Takada

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Tone: whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
identity
madness
memory
freedom
Places: None
Era: timeless
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
animated
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	4
Humour	4
Realism	3
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: animation
Directed by: Mahiro Maeda, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa
Written by: Mahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Tatsuya Tanaka, Kazuto Nakazawa
Starring: Arata Furuta, Yukiji, Shoko Takada, Urara Takano
Runtime: 81 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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